re: #159 ozbloke

/ Great, now they are all going to have to move.

Got a street name in this area, I’d like to street view it, fan of American architecture.

It’s the Fry’s Spring area of Charlottesville. Most of the streets are named after people who made up the history of that neighborhood.

Here is the history of that area. (.pdf file)

Fry’s Spring is arguably Charlottesville’s first suburban development. Although the earliest dwellings date from the last decade of the 19th century, its identification as a significant landmark area for both Charlottesville and neighboring Albemarle County reaches back far earlier. In 1817, Nelson Barksdale conveyed 305 acres in the vicinity of Charlottesville to James Francis (Frank) Fry, his son-in-law and grandson of Joshua Fry. This parcel incorporated the spring that gives the area its name.1 Joshua Fry (d. 1754) partnered with Peter Jefferson to produce one of the most valuable maps of early Albemarle County in the 18th century. The Barksdale name appears throughout Albemarle’s 19th- and early-20th-century records, with John Barksdale listed as a resident on Fry’s Spring Road in the 1920 census and the name “Barksdale” penciled in on the 1920 Sanborn Insurance map. This would have been referring to his widow, Dolly Barksdale, who appears in the Land Tax records as the owner in 1920. This is the present-day 2209 Jefferson Park Avenue [104-5084-0004] that evidence suggests was constructed ca. 1900.

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